Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a film director, writer, actor and producer. After beginning his career in Poland, he became a celebrated arthouse filmmaker, and Hollywood director of such films as "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "Chinatown" (1974). He is also known for his tumultuous personal life. In 1969, his wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Manson Family.

Ingrid Bergman (August 29 1915 - August 29 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won one of the original Tony Awards. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, …

Eugene Curran Kelly, better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in "Singin' in the Rain", …

François began to assiduously go to the movies at 7. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who becomes his protector. Bazin helped the delinquent Truffaut and also when he was put in jail because he deserted the army. In 1953, he published his first movie critiques in "Les Cahiers du Cinema." In this magazine, Truffaut and some of his friends as...

Jane Campion is an Academy Award-winning film maker. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the USA. Campion attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School early in its history, where she learned the craft that has resulted in a career that spans fourteen films as director, …

Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930) is an American actor, composer, film director and producer. While his recent work as a director, on films like "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters from Iwo Jima", is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles, …

was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first credited film ("Sugata Sanshiro") was released in 1943; his last ("Madadayo") in 1993. His many awards include the Legion d'Honneur and an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.

Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He received widespread recognition when he was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" (2002). The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, the youngest actor ever to win the award.

Guillaume Canet is a French actor and film director. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt. He married German actress Diane Kruger on September 1, 2001. They have since filed for divorce. He won the César Award for Best Director in 2007 for his film "Ne le dis à personne" (Tell no one) based upon the novel by Harlan Coben, starring François Cluzet as the leading part. February 25th, 2007

Marion Cotillard is a French actress, perhaps best known for portraying Edith Piaf in 2007's "La Môme".

Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, …

Catherine Deneuve, (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. A model of French elegance, cultivated lust object for art house filmgoers everywhere, and one of the best-respected actresses in the film industry, Catherine Deneuve made her reputation playing a series of beautiful ice maidens for directors such as Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski.

Nathalie Baye is an award winning French actress. She has won the César award for her acting four times and been nominated a further five times.

Pierre Richard is a comic actor who often plays the character of a clumsy daydreamer. Richard is also a film director and occasional singer.

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the 20th century.

David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor.

Audrey Tautou is a French film actress, known to worldwide audiences for playing the title character in the award-winning French film "Amélie" (2001, "Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain") and as Sophie Neveu in "The Da Vinci Code" (2006).

Cécile de France (born July 17, 1975, Namur, Belgium) is a Belgian actress. She left Belgium at the age of 17 to go to Paris where she studied "l'art dramatique" for two years at Jean Paul Denizon while preparing the ENSATT ("École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre"), the "National Superior School of Arts and Techniques of Theatre".

Wong Kar-wai is a Hong Kong film director known for his visually unique, highly stylized art films. An internationally renowned auteur, he often wears dark sunglasses in public.

Blake Edwards (born July 26, 1922) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director. He began his career as an actor and script-writer, including seven screenplays for Richard Quine. His early career as a script-writer was for radio. His hard-boiled private detective scripts for Richard Diamond, Private Detective became NBCs answer to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, …

Anouk Aimée is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning French film actress. Aimée was born Françoise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris, France, the daughter of another actress, Geneviève Sorya, and Henry Dreyfus. She is Jewish. Aimée began her career in French films in 1947 at age 14. In 1958 she portrayed the tragic artist Jeanne Hébuterne in the film "Les Amants de Montparnasse".

Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1941) is an Italian writer and Academy Award winning film director.

Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French Academy Award-winning actress.

Luc Besson (born March 18, 1959) is a French film director, writer and producer.

Jeanne Moreau (born 23 january 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress, and director. Moreau was born in Paris to an English (dancer) mother and a French barman. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1947, she made her theatre debut at the Avignon Festival. By her twenties, Moreau was already one of France's leading stage actresses at the Comédie-Française. After 1951 she began appearing in films with small or "bit" parts.

Simone Signoret (March 25, 1921 - September 30, 1985), was an Academy Award-winning Jewish-French actress.

Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American directress, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the first American woman and is only the third woman in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born 3 September 1953) is a French film director. His films are idiosyncratic fantasies characterized by detailed sets and story-lines.

Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1963 film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which he won an Academy Award.

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. He is the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humor, strong colors and glossy décor. Almodóvar never judges his characters actions, whatever they do, …

Philippe Noiret (October 1 1930 - November 23 2006) was a French film actor.

Alain Delon is a French actor, one of the best known outside his native country. Delon’s star rose quickly, and by the age of twenty-three he was garnering comparisons to French screen legends such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot. Not wanting to fall back on his looks, Delon tried to take roles that presented him with more of a challenge.

Omar Sharif (born April 10, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films. He has acted in Arabic, French, and English feature films. Sharif is most famous for his roles in "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia".

Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960) is a Golden Globe-winning English actor.

Linh Dan Pham is a French actress of Vietnamese descent. She was born in Saigon, South Vietnam in 1973 but moved with her family to France a year later. She is known most for her 1992 role as a Vietnamese princess in the Oscar-winning French epic "Indochine", starring alongside Catherine Deneuve. Pham received a César (French equivalent of the Oscars) nomination for most promising actress for her role. Despite appearing in a few other productions afterwards, …

Patrick de la Chesnais is an actor. He was born in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. In 1989 he won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the film "La Lectrice" directed by Michel Deville. In 1994, he starred in Harold Pinter's "Le Retour".

Gaspard Ulliel (born November 25, 1984) is a French film actor. He began appearing in made-for-television films during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and has since become known as a film actor in France, as well as starred in the title role in the horror/thriller "Hannibal Rising".